id: 143761
accession number: 1968.20
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The Virgin Crowned by Angels, c. 1450. Stefan Lochner (German, 1400-c. 1452). Oil on wood; framed: 68.5 x 47.5 x 7.5 cm (26 15/16 x 18 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 50.5 x 29.2 cm (19 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1968.20
title: The Virgin Crowned by Angels
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creation date: c. 1450
creation date earliest: 1445
creation date latest: 1455
current location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Germany, Cologne, 15th century
technique: oil on wood
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Medieval Art
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Stefan Lochner (German, 1400-c. 1452) - artist
Lochner was probably born in Meersburg on Lak Constance since both his parents died there in 1451, the year of his own (most likely premature) death in Cologne. He is first mentioned in that city as a painter in 1442 under the names Meister Steffen and Stephain Loechener. Albrecht Durer passing through Cologne on his way to the Netherlands in 1520identified the artist of the large altarpiece of the Adoration of the Magi as "Maister Stephan". This work (now in the cathedral of Cologne) marks Lochner as the major exponent of the Cologne School, revealing his affinity for the International Gothic Style developed under the influence of South German, Cologne, and above all, Netherlandish masters. There is no document attesting to an actual sojourn in the Netherlands, but his pictures offer sufficient evidence for a contact with the North.
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measurements: Framed: 68.5 x 47.5 x 7.5 cm (26 15/16 x 18 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 50.5 x 29.2 cm (19 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1968
opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).
title: Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages
opening date: 1985-01-22T05:00:00
Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985).
title: Stefan Lochner: Meister zu Köln
opening date: 1993-12-02T05:00:00
Stefan Lochner: Meister zu Köln. Wallraf-Richartz Museum (organizer) (December 2, 1993-March 13, 1994).
title: Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church
opening date: 2003-09-07T00:00:00
Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2003-September 26, 2004).
title: From Van Eyck to Dürer: Artistic Exchanges between the Netherlands and Central, Eastern and Northern Europe c.1420-1530
opening date: 2010-10-28T00:00:00
From Van Eyck to Dürer: Artistic Exchanges between the Netherlands and Central, Eastern and Northern Europe c.1420-1530. Groeningemuseum, Stedelijke Musea, Brugge, Belgium (October 28, 2010-January 30, 2011).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Kuno Kocherthaler, Berlin, Germany
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(Pinakos, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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CITATIONS
Wolfgang Stechow. "A Youthful Work by Stephan Lochner." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 55, No. 10 (Dec., 1968)
page number: pp. 307- 314
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152241
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 66
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n90
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1968.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 1 (1969).
page number: cat. no. 67
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152250
Urbach, Zsusza, "Review of Norhern Painting from Pucelle to Brueghel: Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centries by Charles D. Cuttler," Acta Histoiriae Arium XVII (1971).
page number: p. 136, fig. 3
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Louise d' Argencourt, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: catalog number 9
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 9, p. 25 - 26; colorplate VII
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 75
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n95
Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
page number: p. 31, 59
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Chapuis, Julien. Stefan Lochner: Image Making in Fifteenth-Century Cologne. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003.
page number: Fig. 143, p. 179
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Wiemann, Elsbeth, and Hans Holbein. Hans Holbein d. Ä.: die Graue Passion in ihrer Zeit. Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie, 2010.
page number: p. 339, Cat. 173
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Ronnberg, Ami, and Kathleen Martin. The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images. 2010.
page number: p. 541, Fig. 804
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Borchert, Till, and Julien Chapuis. Van Eyck to Dürer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish Painting on European Art, 1430-1530. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011.
page number: cat. no. 173, p. 339
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Prinz, Felix. Gemalte Skulpturenretabel: zur Intermedialität mitteleuropäischer Tafelmalerei des 15. Jahrhunderts.Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.
page number: Mentioned: p. 209 & 327; Reproduced: p. 210
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